Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1877, Page 4

The Tribune, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DY MAM~IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE FREPAID AT TIIS OFPICE. ity Fattlon, poripaids 1 year R Aistied to ny addrce four ¥ Sunday Bditlon: Literary and Ne Khiert b Faturda © L PER 2l 338 838 Wi I-Weckly, postpaid, 1 yeaf I':ruoruynr.pcprmom{... WRERLY REDITION, POSITAID. £ 838 Torresent delay and mistakea, he sureand give Posts Oft.cesddress In full, Incinding Biate and County. Remittances may bemade elther hy draft, expresa, Tost-Otice order, or Inreglatercd Jetters, atour risk, TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIBERS, Tally, del'rercd, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per werk, Trily, dedvered, Sunday incladed, 30 cents per week Addres THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Lorner Madtson and Dearborn: Chicago, &1l AMUSEMENTS. Haverly’s Theatre. Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle, Engsgement of the Ttichinga-Dernard Opera Troupe, **Trovatore.” NMeVicker’s Thentres Madlson street, between Dearborn and State. Rogagement of Mist Mary Anderson, *‘Bfanca." Musenm. Monroe streetbetween State and Dearborn. Vaude- Yille'and novelty, Engagement of Dea Thompson, **Joshua Whitcomb,* Adclphl Theatre, Monroe street, corner Desrborn, the Black Hliis." *'Texas Jack In New Chicngo Theatre. Clark street, between Lake snd Itandolph. Rice's Minstrels, Dasc-Ball Park. Twentythird and State streets, White Btockings va. Syracuss Stars at 3:43 . BOCIETY MEETINGS. - ORIENT, ODOE, No. 83, A. T. and A. M, ~Ifall, Ko. 121 afalle-st. Siate Communication” this (Fri- d15), erening, at 7:00 'ciock, for husiness and work ol » L. Degree, he 3 2 hree. Wy ordel, OLFIUAUR, seo. COVENANT LODGFE, NO. 52, A, F. & A, M.—=Teg. ul nmiintcation vife (FHiuxy) véning’ at_Corla: a 1 I, 187 East Rinzie-n lock. ok un the M, M. 'Degree. Viaiting bresiren cnmllfla'l’nvlltd‘ By ordor of the W, M, WAL KEKI, Sec. TIOME LODGE, Ko. 508, A, F. and A, Communtcatinn this (Fridy) éventng at § at Hail I ‘Twenty-sccond-st, Wurk on the . M. l’r§rw. Yistting brethren cordlally fnvited, Dy order of the aster, K. Z. HERRICK, Sec, ~FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1477. OHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY. ‘Tha Chicago produce markets were ateadier yes- terday, with fairactivity. Mees pork closed b 10c per brl higher, at $156,20 cash and $15.35@ 15.40 for Juno. Lard closed 2%c por 100 lbs lower, at $0.87%0 cash and $0.03@0.07% for Junc, Meats wero e per 1b higher, at GXc per b for loose shoulders, 7%c for do short ribs, and 7Xc for do short clears. Ilighwines were fn fair demand, at 81,10 per gallon. Flour was quict and steady, Whest closed G higher, at 81.6244 cash and $1.05 for June. Corn closed %ic higher, at 52%c for May and 53%c for Juno. Oatsclosed 244@ic highor, at 44¢ for May and 44%c forJunc. Rye wasdull and emior, at 8Ge. Darley was entlrely nominal, st 70@80c, Hogs wore activo and 5@10¢ higher, cloaing firm at $5.30@5.45 for light and at $5.35@%5.65 for hcavy. Cattlo were actlvoand stronger, common to extra sclling at $3.50@0.85. Sheep wers firm, with salea at $4.60Q0.8754, Ono hundred doilars in gold would buy $107.00 in groenbacks st the close. Greonbacks at the Yew York Stock Ex- change yestorday closed at 93§. Tho 8t. Potersburg correspondent of the Memorial Diplomatique writes that tho sitna. tion in Russin s pninful. Commerco is chockod, tho manufactories are without or. ders, thonsonds of workmen sre without bread, capital is taking itsel? awny, and tho doprecintion of the rouble contimues. Fault is found with tho administration of the na- tion's financos. The loans that have been contracied abronde by the Govornment tako out of tiie country 68,000,000 roubles in gnl‘d 8 year, izod in o schrome which promised to result in somo saving fn the rates charged by newspa- pers for Government advertising. He let tho job out to partics who were interested in tho causc of rotronchmont and cconomy, only to discover that tho clover patriots wore making a nico thing of it—recelving com- misslons from both tho Government and the newspapers. Hereafter Gen, Kexy will find it to tho advantage of his Department to deal directly and shun the blandishments of the middlemen, Dispatchos from Bucharest, the Rouma-~ ninn Capital, give n brief account of o short bombardment of Ibrail, n fortified town of Wallachia, with sbout 10,000 inhabitants, now held by the Russians, Tho place hos a consitderable export trade, principally con- fined to produceof varlous kinds,which finds its wny form the country districts, "Tho bombardment was lhardly worlhy of the nawme, a8 only ono Turkish gunbont was engaged, and this vessel was obliged to retiro out of range, having been sob on fire by Russian shells. A dispatch from Bt. Petersburg, giving an official account of the operntions of the Rus. sian army in Asia Minor, states that the movoments nainst the encmy were prin. cipally made by detachments of cavalry, and . were not of spaclal imporiance otherwiso than in developing tho strength of the enemy at various poihits. ‘The fighting nt Kars, ac- cording to this account, was of brief dura. tion, the invaders sustaining little loss, while that of tho ‘Turks must also have been small, as they fought under the cover of their fortifications, Rus. slan officers report that tho inhabitants of the territory thus far occupied evince a fricndly feeling toward the invaders, and in mony instances show an aotual sympathy for their causo ; s0 much so thet it is pro- posed to enlist cavalry regiments from among them, which will form an important auxiliary to the Army of the Caucasus, Tz Teinuse printed on Wednesday morn. ing, simultancously with its eppearance in the New York Ilerald, the Russion version ' of the march into Roumania, and othor war news. It wns lmportant to get this news from the Itussian stand-point. The Chicago T¥mes foiled to get it. 'This, of course, was sufficient provocation for the 7'imesto break out jn a column and a half of impotent rage. ‘It prescnts the spectacls of any other imbe- § cilo person who has neglected a good oppor- " tunity, aud then howls and curses at & wore enterprising noighbor who has fusproved the same chance, It iy & way that profane people take to rid themselves of their spleen. If we are to have a lec- ture on journalism from the Chicago TWmes every timo it s behind in entorpriso during the entiro period of the Russo-Turkish war, wo sincerely condols with the Chicsgo pub- Yie. The 7'imes will do botter to confess once for all that its famous ** Pnoumatic Tabe " is not alwoys relisble, Wheao tho wind is not in the right direction, tho tube won't work ; + and when the tube won't work, the Z'imes * 4nils to wot tho nows, ‘That is all there is to \THE CHICAGO it. Whon the Times fails to print the news Tne Trinoxe gets, it will bo understood here- after that the wind was in tho wrong direc. tion. Itistoo much to expect of any ono nawspaper to ntilizo all the discovered nat- urnl forces, and now that tho Timer hns turned its attontion to pneumatics, it neces- Rarily negleets electricity, Let ns eharitably rest tho matter thoro, and not wonder that tho T'imes gela mnd, nor resent the senila manifestation of its rage, whon * the darned thing won't work.” A new burdon has been imposod npon the taxpayers of Cook County by the Board of Commissioners in tho form of a resolution diteoting that hereafter all orders on the Connty Treasnry shall draw interest at the rateof 7 per cent nntil paid, and also that all orders heretofore issuod and remaining unpaid may also receive the same rate of interest. These orders are held by con- tractors, and shonld be cashed nas scon as fssned but for tho fact that tho oxiravagance and corruption of tho Ring majority of the present Board have exhausted the various funds in the Treasury. In nearly every instance the contracts npon which these orders have boen insued were awarded not to the lowest bid. der, but to favorites of tho Ring, so that by tho nllowance of interest on unpaid orders the county is made to suffer a doubls inflic- tion. At tho rate tho Board is now incarring liabilities with no money to meot thom, the new interest acconnt will foat up a heavy total by the end of the year. It appears from o dispatch received from our correspondent in Springfleld that the re- port first agreed upon by the majority of the Sonate State-Houso Committes was far more condemnatory of the neglect, inefficionoy, and extravaganco of the Commission than the roport whick wns finally presented and signod by every member of the Committec, What tho mnajority report would have beon bnt for thodesirs tosecuron unanimouns report infavorof abolishing the office of State-ITouso Commissioners, is no moro than it should have beon out of strict regard for the cvi- denco and the faots, As tho caso now stands, the Commissioners are included in the con- demuation of the architect, withont the full prescntment of their culpable violation of trust which was ombodiod in the first roport. The deficiency, however, in the finnl report is supplied by the ono great fact that tho new Btate-Hlonso stands on unfinished and unworthy structure, while tho money which should bave been nmple for its completion has been worso than squandered in many in- stances, The inveatigation of the' management of the New York Custom-House davelops a con- dition of affairs so complotely at variance with the poliéy of Civil-Servica reform of tho present Administration that Sceretary Snenyan will find it an excellent opportunity for a thorough overhauling of that notorions institution, Ithas been conducted in tho interest of politicians, nnd converted inton rofuge for political workers, who draw thoir salaries but porform no services, and the cost to the Governmont of this arrangoment is ot lenst $100,000 per year. Conducted upon the ordinary business prineiplo of ro- quiring every employa to earn his salary, it is shown by tho testimony of the Paymaster that the laborors’ pay-roll, which now amounts to $300,000, could be reduced to §225,000, while, by decroasing the numbor of districta and getting rid of & number of use- less subordinates, n further reduction of §130,000 conld bo mnde. And it wonld un- doubtedly be found that n higher degreo of eficency would be secured in conse quenca of sucli n reductlon of the working force, A bill has passed the Houso s nn amend. ment to the General Incorporation act, regu- lating the assessment of taxes in cities and vil. Inges orgnnized undor this nct, which provides that the nggregate amount of taxes lavied for ono yenr shall not exceed 2 per contum of tho nggregato valuation of all proparty with. in such city or village os equalizod for State and county purposes. This limitation woald be about right, if it wero oxclusivo of the in- terest on tho debt. This wns tho principle on which the Constitution limited connty taxes to -75 conts on the 3100, explicitly ex- cluding the payment of debts, which wo be- liove bas beon constried to include tho intor- cst thercon. The House bill, as it is reported to us, socms to exciude the tax-lovy for *“ any parlicalar debt, appropriation, or liability for the same,"” which is 50 vagus ns not to givo n clear iden of what the intention iu, It may bo that tho exact phrascology of the bill makes this ovident. Wo believe the valuntion of Chicago's taxable property, ac. cording to the Btato equalization, was some- thing liko® $185,000,000 last year. At the samo rate, our appropriations for the current year (which wero reduced as low ns was thought posaible) are somewhat in excessof the proposed luuitation, though not much, 1f debt and intercst aro excluded from the limit, then Chicago {s below that limitation, 08 it always onght Lo be, Bonator Monzox has publishod inthe forth. coming June numboer of the North American Jview o paper on the American Coustitu. tion, especially tho provisions regulating the election of Presidont and Vice-Prosident. Mr. Monrox thinks that the fathors of the Conatitution so constructod tho Govornment ‘a5 to leave tho peoplo out ps far as pos- sible,” and that this was duo to a distrust of the democracy, Oan this he proceeds to buose an argument to show tho greater uafety there is in tho incorruptibility and con- servatism of tho great body of the people than in that of a fow hundred selected per- sons, Ilo therofore urges tho expediency of abolishing the Elootoral College as part of the machinery of tho elaction of President. While we fully agroe with Senator Monton a3 to tho comparativo dangers to the national pence involved in the further use of the machinery of the Electoral College, and as to tho expediency of some other mode, wo do not ogrea with him that its original adoption was induced by nvy distrust of the people. It was a schome con- slatont with tho accepted theories of gov- ornment at that time, aud wns made more prominent becauso of the peculiar circum. stances of & number of States, then small and likely to remain small, who were extromely jealous of their power in tho Union. These Slates insisted on their full equality of rop. resentation in the Bonate, and that this Sen. atorial representation shounld cxtend to the cholce of President. To carry this out prac. tically, rendered the machinegy of Electors n convenience, At that time, ulso, Wasmixa. rox filled the national measure for President, Bo ono elso boing contemplated ss even n candldato while ke lived. It was deemed that, after his day, the choice of Presidont might bo loft to the people of the several Btates, they appointing Electors who, in turn, representing public opinion, would chooso a Presidont,—the possibility of the pmall Btates coucoutrating their vote in tho Elostoral Collojen to protect their own interests ngninst the nggrossions of the Iarger Slates always being kept in view, The framers of tho Constitution did not be. {ray n distrnst of the peoplo when they left the qnalification of voters to ba fixed by tha people of tho several States, and the Presi- dential Electors to b appointed in such man- tior ns tho Stato Legislatures might direct. Tho theory of that day, that the personal choice of a Presidont would never bo - the oceasion of great popular excitemont, had but a short life. It hardly snrvived the vol. unlary retivoment of Wasmxaroxn, and the election of 1800.'01 was, considering the youth of the Government and the small num. ber of people, a8 exciting ns was thatof 1876. '77. Br, MonTox postpones until a Iater num« ber considerations why the Eloctoral systeny shonld be displaced for some other. The substitnted is not even foreshadowed, but Mr, Montox will have less diffienlty in satis. {ying the country that the Electoral system shonld bo abolished than he will have in uniting public opinion in favor of a new plan. Wo agree with him that this isa mensura which will demand action in timo to have n new plan of electing President befors Alio eloction of 1880, “The Clerk of tho Honsoe of Ropresents. tives at Washington has undertaken to es- tablish himself aa the judge of the clection of members of Congress. In tho case of Colorado, an clection wng held nnder the State Constitution not only for the term of Congresa which would expire before the next election, but also for the unaxpired term of tho then Congress. DBoth parties nominated their candidates for Congress. Mr, Jaura B. Bruronp was the Republicnn candidato, and Trosas M. PatTersoN tho Democratic candidate, 'The tickets used by both parties Tead ns follows: L DEMOCRATIC. For Nepresentativo In the Forty-fourih Congress —=Tnosas M. PaTTRL: 280N, 3 For lluflrnsen(nllra in the Forty-fifth Congross— TioMAs M. PATTERON. IEPURLICAN, For Representativo In the Forty-fourth Congress ~JAdnxs B, BrLronu, For Representative in the Forty-Alth Congress— Jaxes 13, Bevronn, Each voter voted for Congrossman for tho fnll term and vacancy on the same ticket. ‘When the votes wero connted, Benrorn hnd n majority of 098 for tho short term and 834 for the long term. ParTEnsox, after claim- ing for some weoks that ho hnad boon clect- od, then pretended to have discovered that tho election for tho long torm should have beon held n Novomber, and in November some of his frionds opened polls in some of the countics, nnd thoy returned that 2,377 votos had been polled for him and 70 for Beuronp, Tho Governor commissioned Bruronp for both terms, and he sorved ont tho short torm, Clerk Apass, howover, bo- couso of the shallow, shnmeless clailn of PatTERSON, hns refused to placo the name of Mr., Berronpon the roll of members, in- tending thoreby fo excludo him from any voice in the orgnnization of tho House, This question was submitted to Senator Enxuxns for his opinion on the matter, and ho has written a lotter holding that the cloction in October was tho only legal clection,.and that thore was no logal nuthority whatover for the pretended eloction in November., Partres- #oN was a condidate for both officos in Oc- tober, and was dofeated, and he has neither moral nor legal claim to the seat,. o hna not oven n tochnicality on which to rest n cloim for tho offico. Clork Apams, howover, cares nothing for all this; ho wants to se- cure as largo o Domocratio majority as possl. blo by excluding Brrronp until after tho or- ganization, and leaving him to take his seat n year lience, after & contest over the purcly imaginativo claim of Parrenson. THE STATE-HOUSE CONTROVERSY. A practical end has beon put upon thocon- troversy over tho construction of the Illinois State-House by tho unanimous, and singu. larly clear and concise, report of Messra, Joxzs, Warrive, Ramwey, McCrenraw, and Frax1z, the Senato Committeo appointed to investigato.tho matter. Wedo not sco how the Legislaturo can honestly or ressonably avold indorsing this report and earrying out its rocommopdations, In the comments made by Tnz TrinoNE of yosterday, wo had not tho advantage of tho full toxt of the ro. port, and ita substanco had been only par- tially communicated ot the moment of writ. ing tho article. Wo find that it bears out in cvory particular all that Tiz Trisone over charged in rognard to to the State-Houso, and that it demands precisely what 'Tne Trinung has demandod ovor since the Leglslaturo con. voned, viz.: That the architect bo removed, that tho Board of Stato.House Commission. ora bo abolishod, and that simply means be takon for'tho protection of the building as it stands for tho present, These recommenda. tlons should bo adopted by the Logislatura with the samo unanimity with which thoy are mado by the Committce, after n thor- ough investigation, oxtending as far back na tho 2d of February, and covering tho wholo ground. 'The proaent State-TTouse Commissionors— Jacon Bunx, Jaues H, Brveamae, and Jony T. Bruant—and the presont architeot, Jony 0. Coounane, have been practically in chargo of the work of construction from the outsct, ‘They havo beon woll compensated for thelr time, ns the following statement of tho pro- fesslonal and official cxponacs shows For Commlasioncrs' nalarios, Becretary uf the Commission. . Attorncys' fee Architecta' fee: Total e s veen S, 0 While drawing this amount of inoney for watching the interests of tho Stato, these peoplo have oxpended tho entire $3,500,000 authorized by the Constitution to be oxpend- od upon a State-House, and have left it in an unfinished condition that will requiro, ac. cording their own cstimate, $700,000 more to complete it. If thero has boen no corruption in the job, then this showing is a ecrious re. flection upon tho intelligenco and diligence of the men responsible for it. As far back aa oarly in 1869, not long after the work had been begun, a committec of the Bonate, com- poacd of competent and praotical men, re. ported to that body that, undortle plans, tho State-House would bo more likely to cost $5,000,000 than $3,500,000, and recom. mended that the architect, Cocunanz, and his assistont bo romoved. But the Commission. ers stood by Lim, aund, ever sinco then, bave twice n year assured the people that tho building should be completul within the constitutional lmitation. This assurance was ropeated in the most omphatic manner to the last Legislature, when the Comnmis- sloners asked and received tho last $800,000 which the Constitution authorized the Logis. lature to appropriate. Commissloner Sru- ART, in en eoffort to dofond himself from blame, says in a cord that, when this stato- mont was made, ho * kincerely belioved it.” We presume the other Commissioners will waintain the satae thing. Then it atounts to confession cither that the Commission- ors wero incompotent, or that they were noglocting their duty as officors of the State; TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1877, for 82,700,000 had alrendy boen exponded on tho building, which was then under roof, and there romained only the dome and the finishing to bo done. Men who, at thir ad- vanced stago of the building, could not gness within $700,000—nently threesquartora of a million—of how much the finishing torxches wonld cost, wera certnialy unfit to e in- trusted with the supervision and discrotion of the work. 2 It is trno that changes were subseqrmontly made in the plans, butthesa changer. only ndd to the enlpability of the Commissioners instond of excusing their conduet. They au. thorized an alleration of the dome which in. volved an additionsl outlay of $30,000, They approved a system of ornamentation which was not merely in bad tnsto and ox- travagant, but which the Committee find to be dofective and perishable. They repart that of the Supreme Court-room to be warse than uscless, The termecotta work on the bolustrades and dome-windows s of bad quality and not durable. The oxpersive flooring (marquotry) is 80 poor, rmd hes al- rondy shrunken so much, that it is evident it will have to bo romoved and replaced. A sort of imitation marble has been emyyloyed in n largo paM of the building, which. is al. rendy peeling off, and for which soniething clse will have to be substitated. Fiven an inferior quality of Portland cement fis found to have been nsed in large quantilicsns a substitate for store or tiling, And v/ill have to give way to somothing else. All these things were provided at an excessive cost, imvolving nn expendi- tare of hundreds of thousands of dollars beyond 1tho amonnf, contom- plated by the Conatitation, and ‘yot are not oven substantial, nor durabla, nor orna. montal. The profligacy of smch manage- mont is obvious, and a private parson erect. ing a building under tho sanvs conditions would suspect his ngenda of bolsig somothing worse than profligate. All this is simply a legislalive confirma. tion of what Tne TarnuNe pointed out early in tho winter. No more mongy can bo np- propriated to completo tho Btate-Houso witbout being submitted fo tho approval of a popular voto. Wao have held! all along that the peoplo wonld not vote one dollar more to bo expended undor the -supervision of the mon responsible for tho past abuses, Tho Benato Committeo aro oviilontly of tho same mind in recommending tho’ romovnl of the architeot and tho abolition. of the Board of Commissioners bofore any appeal bo made to the peoplo for mora memoy. If the Log- islatare fail to carry ont t'teso recommenda- tions, wo warn thom agrdn that it will be usoless to ask the peojlo for any moroe money to bring tho work to completion. It would be both foolish and. wrong to condone the abnscs that have nlresdy occurred by confiding any more monety to tho samo men for exponditure. GRAIN INGEECTION. It is reported that therois yeot room to hopo for the ropeal of tlie law under which politicians ‘control tho inspection of grain in Chicago and at no uther point, If the bill now ponding in the Sennte shonld pass that body, it mny also roceivo favorablo nction on the part of the House ns a Bonate mensure, notwithstandirg the defont of the bill recontly brought beforer tho lower body. In this conneetion, it is oxtly simpla justice to say for tho gralnowners and grain- morchants who havo nsked for a chango in the Inspection law of this Stato, that they havo boen misunderstood, and their position misropresented. It is not irue, ns alleged, that tho chango is domandad by tho graln. scalpera and moro epoculators. ‘That class of men tako littlo or no intorest in tho subject of inspection, Thoy neither'sco nor handle the proporty in which they donl, nnd do not attompt to influencos tho inspection, On tho othor hand, the log itimato denlors, by which we mean the men who rocefve and ship tho property, are vitally interestod in a just and proper inspgetion'; and thoy, al- most to a man, urge that the prosont systom is a perniclons one, resulting to tho dotri. mont of both the producer and consumer, as well as to the damagoe of the man who han- dles tho proporty. Probably 80 per cent of ail the grain that arrives dn Chicago s ad- vanced upon by Chicago recnivors ns soon as it is shipped, or beforo that ovent ; anditis woll known that & vory large ‘proportion of all the corn cribbing in the countryis done by the money provided by commission mer- chants in this city. Itis theroforo idlo to sny that the reccivera of grnin aro mero scalpors, and havo no pocuniary intorest in the grain thoy roceive. Not one farmer in a hundred ships his grin dircctly to Chicago; but tho men who do abip the grain to thia city avo potitioned tho Logislature to abolish tho Stato Inspaection. Enstern buyors distrust our inspection, for the very reason that it is n State systom. With them the system s n wrong upon its face, and 8o aug- gostivo of possible fraud that thoy cannot trust it, Thoyliave had such experlenco with a State Inspection in New York ns to call for the ndoption of a Constitution pro- hibiting Btate inspestion except for thoso articles in which tho State has n peouniary interest, There can bo no doubt. that it would bo for tho interest of all parties concerned In actually handling grain if the State should rolinquish tho inwpection into the hands of the trade, where it logitimately and properly bolongs. FAILURE OF THE IOWA CONSPIRACY. ‘The Btate of Iowa has been for somo time tho seat of an open rovolt, lod by the State Register of Des Molnes and n gang of implacables, against the polioy of Presidont Harzs, Thoy have made use of every provo. cation and falso representation to produca a division of the party in that ‘Btato, to array the State agaiust tho President, and to break down Mr. McCrary, tho Becrotary of War, ona of tho best and blest mon Towa has pro- duced. Tho attempt, howover, alrendy bo- gins to look like n misorable failure, and docs not command the sympathy of either the peoplo or tho press of Towa. Five of the strongest daily papers in tho' Btato—the Davenport Guzelte, Burlington JIawkeye, Dubuque 7imes, Keokuk Gate City, and Clinton Herald—naro supporting the Presi- dontinl policy freely and solidly, The Daven. port Gazetle, which Lias a much larger circu., lation and influence than the Des Moines Regiater, comes up manfully to the support of Mr. Haxes, ‘The Dubuque Z'imes, one of the most yadical papors in that radical State, soys: ‘‘What confidence can: the ocountry havo placed upon a State Administration, for governing and administrative purposes, that fell to wreck like the staves of s hoopless barrel the instant the Btate was left to its own logal resources and powers? Declaring that theirs was the legal Government, the event proves that, however porfoct may have been their legal title, thoy were utterly without power. Their sudden collapso proves that thess Governments were merely proxy powers, oxcrcising Federal power throngh Btate ngenciea; in other words, wero only outlying. provinces governed by DPresidential Vice. voys." Tho Burlington Jarwkeye aayn : * Tho Ropublicans of Lounisiana ought to learn from their past exporicneo to olect men to tho Legisiaturo who will staud by their party and ita principles, and not bo led abont by the nosa by Pixcnpack, Wamxors, snd other political nspirants,” These expressions ropresont the goneral spirit of the respect- sbleand inflnentinl Towa nowspapers. Do- hind theso five strong rivor papers are mora than fifty of the beat local papers, who have 80 succossfully resisted the conspiracy of the Des Moines Register and its implacable gang that it hns not been able to drive off n single State officer, mombor of Congress, or either of the Henntorsa from thelr support of the FPresidont's policy. Bo far from nrraying the peopls of Iown ngainst the President, it hns had the effect to aronso a still stronger detesmination to give his policy a fair trinl, It that policy proves a failure, the responsibility must rest with tho Bourbona of tho Sonth, who have promised protection to tho negro and his rights, If it proves succossful, it will for- ever shut tho mouth of this implacable mob. Tho action of the Stats Reglster hns it countorpatt in this State, whoro an unin- fluential Chicngo newspaper, with tho Zilinols Stats Journal, a newspaper ont in Kendall County, and two or thres other insigmficant shoats, aa boba to ita kite, have conspired to disrupt the party by opposing the Presidont's policy. It has resulted, however, in the same wrotched failure that is observed in Towa. Nine out of ten of the people of Tllinols and nina out of ton of the nows- papers support the policy, and will support it until it is proved to bo a failure, ———— THE CAMPAIGN IN ASIA MINOR. The Russian army in Asiatio Turkey, Turkish reports to tho contrary nolswith- standing, hns thus far mado n succossful ad- vanco into Armenin, and scoms to have been victorious in evory important encounter with the Turks. If tho reader will consult the map, the progress of the Russian forces can bo casily noted. With the Asintio cnnpaign in viow, Russia formed two armies on her torritory south of the Caucasus. Ono of them, about 60,000 strong, was concontrated near tho south const of the Black Sen, Liav- ing Troblzond for ita objective point, and commoenced moving on the 25th ult. towards Batoum, first enconntering the Turks, the next day, nt the mouth of the Thuruckson River, where, aftar slight resistance, accord- ing to tho latest sccounts, thae latter fell Diack. Sinco then there has boen no nows from this section, oxcept that the Turkish fleet is bombarding Poti and Fort St, Nick. olas on the coast near the Turkish frontier, Tho second nrmy, nearly 100,000 strong, ‘was concentrated at Alexandropol, adjacont to the Armenian frontior, and but two days’ march from Kars, which bars tho road to its objective point at Erzoroum, 1560 miles from Aloxandropol. ‘Tho onpturo of Erzeronm would give the Russians control of Armenia southward to Van, on o lake of that namo noar the Persian frontior and northward of Trobizond, with shich it is connected by a good road, and the capture of Trobizond would out off tho Tarkish communications by son, and thus leave tho Turks at tho moercy of tho invaders, sinco thera aro no railroads between Constantinople and Ar- menia. The main intereat of the campaign now contres at Kars, which has boon at- tacked by tho contre of the Russian nrmy undor Merixorr, 10,000 strong. It is ovi. dent that tho nttack has been mnde by only a portion of the army, innsmuch as Bayazid, which is nearly 100 miles southwest of Knrs, has been attackoed nnd captured by a power- {ful Russian forco since the attack upon Kara commenced. It fs not impossible, nlso, ns tho forco around Kara is sccompanied by a henvy sloge train, that it is the Russlan plan not to wait for the capturo of Kars, but to ndvanco - the larger part of the army towards Erzeroum, the capture of which would of necessity involve the fall of Trebizond and tho union of tho two armies, in which event tho fall of Kars would bo only a mntter of time, ns well as the Russian occupation of the wholo of Ar- menin. Thus far the Russian operations around Kars have been succossfnl, Tho first battlo occurred on Bunday last tn point five miles from Kars, whore tho Turks, under Mouxuran Pasma, who served in Herzogovina lnst summer, were dislodged from their positions nnd driven back, It is not likoly that the investment of Kara will ho followed by its specdy capturo, It is n placo of gront strength, situated on a plain, defonded by ramparts, aud surrounded by a diteh, with atrone works on the outlying hills, and a powerful citadel within tho walls, In 1828 it was captured by tho Russian Gen. Pasxrevrron by assault, In the Crimean war, however, it was strongly fortifled under the direction of tho English, aud wau so stoutly defended by tho English Gen. Witttams and tho Hungarian Gen. Ksery that the Russian assault failed, but, after o two months'siega, it had to surrender from starvation, It should be remembered, however, that tho TRussians have many advantages now that thoy did not possess then. Their artillery has greatly improved, especially in heavy long-rango guns. In 1844 they had no rail- rond communication, Now thoy have a rond to tho foot of the Caucasian Mountalns aud o macadamized road over the mountains to “Tiflis, and from thence an ensy road to Alox- andropol. The army of Kars is but four days from the baso of supplies and roinforco. ment in Russas—a communication which cannot bo disturbed; while the Turkish coramunication is alrendy threatened by ono srmy moving towards Trebizond and the wther towards Erzeroum, until Baturdoy, when the Tabernacle meetings ¢losed and thy danger of losing advertlsiug haa passcd, and then, with great unanfmity, declared they had been Iylug about the success of Moopy all the tlme, This is a sufticient {llustration of the bad character of the Boston editor; but, for- tunately, the sweeplng .success of Moopy's ‘work is youched for tothe publie by evidence <ntlrely Independent of the testhinony of the Boston papers, If the **bruin of Buston hasn't Deen reached,” it {s mercly because it docan't exist, Moopr has been through the “head” of Boston with all the vivacity of a hungry rat dn an empty granary, and if he could find no “braius® ¢ Is not his fault, Buston bralu, like Boston beans, would bo more wholesoc if 7ot exposed to the a'r quito so much. Let ltbe «canned. o —a—— Btato-House Commissioner STUART makes this very remarkable statement fa bis report to the Logislativo Comumnitteo: 1 feel it dus to m(ylull &s one of the Doard of Btate-louse Commlssioncrs t say that whea the roport was inado to tho Joveraur, in December, A674, that (be bullding could bo completed for $800,000, and wbon the s1mo statement was mady 1othe Cummittea of the last Legislature, L sine corcly belloved fe. That bellet of wino wis based on the report mada to the Board by the architects and the oft-repeated assurance of 3r. Piguenatd, persvnally made, that said aum would b saliclent. With all tho estimates ia detall before bim, it almost surpassea the bounds of huwan credulity that a man clalming to he Intellizent conld not arrive at a conclnsfon closer than 700,000 on work to cost 8500,000. The completion was to cost 8800000, but the Board dawdled over it until It swelted to almost double that sum, They changed the upperdomo from Iron to stone at au additional expense of nearly £300,. 000, without heing consclons that they would run short of money and exhaust the constitu- tlonal limlt, They nlso coneented to other changzes that added $400,000 to the expenso aml nothing to the value of the work, and still did not suspect that they would .exceed tha limit of the money! Let those helleve all this who can, and that will not be many. e ————— THE BLATE. Tho manlclpal slate, ns far s made outy s no- derstoad 10 bo a foilowa: Corporatton Counsel—Frank Adams or Joseph Don- "Gl Reater—Conrad Yolaor az-Ald. Cleveland, Qi tnspecior—s — Cole, Kanin Side Prlfes Jdustivé—Jonn Symmerfield, Ve dide fulice Tuaticehloxander 1o, Storrlsan. Nerth Side Jvitce Justice—Henty Kaufmann,~Cile- g0 Jonrnal, ‘Tho appolntment of BoxrieLo for the very Important office of Corporation Counsel would not bo apt to strike the Council favorably, A first-class Jawyer i8 needed for that place. Tho present Clty Scaler Is C. H. GiLisriz, ex-Mayor CoLvin's son-indaw. According to all reporte, it 1s tho fattest ofilee in the gift of thoeily. Why a change has not been made loug ago is one of the things *no fellow is abla to find aut." - Who Is ** Corr," set down for Oll Inapectori ‘The present incumbent, Mr. J. . Starronn, is, perhaps, tho best officer who has held the place in a dozen years, Tlo was sppointed by Mayor Hearit last summer. 1f hefs to be ro- moved, people will bo much surprised, as no causo therefor §s known to exlst, and Mr. 8, is not only a most cxccilent officor, but twas an active supporter of tha Mayor's renomination and clection, — Some of tho expenses created by the SBtate- House Board, which they have the hardihiood to #ay “dld not occur to them™ ns part of tho cost of the State-House, aro as follows:, Preminm for deslgn Snlarles of cmployc Commission to architect Ften plana for Penitentl Salaries of Comminsionors Offica Incidental oxpenecs Genoral expenncs, Stationery. Traveling Porlago.. Incldentals Hero!s over $300,000 eaten up In salarles, fees, and incidentals, and the dear innocent creaturcs nover remembered uutll quito re- cently that those expenses entered into tho cost of thoconstruction of the State-Iousel Atall cvents, the items show how marvelously gener- ous they were with the money of the taxpayers, Such open-handed Miberallty docs one's heart good to witness. s 1t England wants to kuow what Ruasia's aims aro in this war, the telegram which tho Czar is reported to have sent to the Princo of Monte- negro Is answer enough. That dispatch s ns followes: “I am firmly resolved this timo to realizo the savred mission of Rusala and my predecessor, Goo will ald us.” Tho mission of Russia has always been tho absorption of Turkey. It s a mission which lias heen often attempted and hasasoften falled. Now weareto seo the flags of the Czar and his Empiro on thelr way to the Mediterranean and the Adrlatie, Ile eays it. e says, too, * (o will ald us.” It matters not. England will oppose. ¥ —— Scnator Bex Iline, belng interviowed on the situatlon, deelincd to say much or to talk about tho futuro; but lio did state that the disintegra- tion of the old parties would come of itsclf, It at all, and that nothing would ald or obatruct It. **New Issucs and now [dcas have come upon the country, That will be the most logical porty that bullds upon new lssucs,’ sald Mr, [liLL, Dut the Democratic party never changes. It belongs to Iepublicanism not to build upon, but to build In, the now issucs, for it is, logical- 1y, tho party of progress and of conformation to o natlon's needs. It is tho party which serves Its country best. e ———— The only State institution situated at Chi- cago s the Illinols Charitable Eye and Ear In- firmary, An appropriation for this uscful chari- ty bas already passed one Ilouso of tho Leglsla- tuic, and should bo put through theother withe out delay or difficulty. Tho need for the In- firmary Is shown by the rapidly Increasing num- ber of its patients. In 1875 the total number of cases treated was 1,175; In 1876 {4 was 1,003, Tho physicians In chargo are eminent and falth- ful practitioners, and the hospital Is economlic- ally managed, —— It 1s sald that when Mr. A, B, MouLerr was offered the Superintendoncy of the Custom- Ilousc here he wrote, among othier things, that he *would be happy to sorve tho Treasury Do- partment when it obtalned o Supervising Are chiteet who was a gentleman and not a d—d fool." Whilo this may huve been disheartening to the Department, It proved at onve that cven 1t Mr, MuLLeTT were appointed thore was no possible chiance uf his promotion on his own vlatlorm of clvil-service rolorm, e —— It was difficult to tell which the old Woells street Bulldozer was maddest at—thae passage ot Anans' back-tax bill compelilng delinquent. dodigers to fork over the taxes out of which they have beaten Chieazo and a score of other citles for scveral ycars, or its own disgraceful fatlura to obiain tho Russian verston of the war nows. It was foaming and furlous at the Leglslature for passing the one, and at Tz ‘TripuNE for surpassing it on tho other. How raging mad the old thinz was! % A If the conductor of the Chilcago Times would pay a little more attention to cetting the nows respeetablo peoplo care about, and less to vuls gar abuso of Tne Trisung for presenting it 1o the publie twenty-foiir hours n advance of fia appearance in his shect, his readors would be better satisfled. —— Bxx Wap= 15 out In a sccond letter, In which ho Indorses the sentiments of his first screed agalnst tho President, and {n which ho white- washes the disrcputable U, H. Paixtes until his best fricnds and worst enemics would not know him, Now, who will indorse Wapsi sl sk oo o adg A writer In a noted quarterly plts Sraxs against STANLEY In African discoveries with but Jittle credit to the latter, This is cruel toBTaN- LEY, who Las almost dislocated his Jaws in try- ing to follow tne motlons of his Augers in writ~ {ng unpronounceable names, —— et C——— AMuLrer? is at last stricken from the Govern« nent pay-rolls. Hecan take care of himself,. however, WEBsTER says hols onc of the kind of fish that “roots In the sand hike a hog,” Ke does a guod many other thivgs like a hog, e 1 the monager of tho Z¥mes supposcs that thosc whio purchase that print are willing to aceept defamation of Tue TRIDUNK as & substl. tute forimpartaut nows, ho is laborivg under on erroneous impression. e — . Tho Pali.Yall Gazelte terms WxNDELL PuiL- L1rs’ “alave-hound-Cabinet speech as * coarze and frautic rhetorie,” Drop rhetorie and you have the descriptidn of an apostle of the Latter- Doy (political) Baints. t —— ‘The wind was blowing from the weton Tues- asy night; henee the Times falled to get any of the Russian version of the war news through its pocumatic tube from the East. ———— A, Oaxar HaLy adopted Fresidont Haves' motto: * e eerves his party best who scrves his country best,’ when he *left his country for bls country’s good.' Already wo sce that (he mouth of tho Danube fllia tho €36 of Europs.—New York Lerald. This uupleasant predicanent of * the mouth of tue Duvube,” aa well 03 of “the eye of ,proving, and, it o, — e Faurope," would, If true, discournge tho Cray, Luckily tt fn only n Merald-Dudlin bull that wyy nat Interfere with the vislon of Earope, and thy Danube's three mouthis can open, ns usual, fy tho Black Bea Instend of in that Cyelopean eye, e 45 A breed of tail-less dogs having boen discoy. cred In Africn, the paternal resource of map nnewspaper Joker has been dlscovered, In cop. sequenco of there not belng a wag among them all. | The rednction of employes in the Depart. menta at Washinzton enables that eity Just now to show tha fincat turn-outs in the world, ! A TRussian Colonel has a salary of only g409 per annum. This may account for the lack of American applicants for that position. | It the Z¥mes would depend mora on nlezlr(dly and less on confined alr for fmportant news, i would not get *“left " so cften. | The Times got scooped again on chnudq by Tne Tninuxe, and hence the eruption of fish-market blackguardism. | GnANT had his milltary Wilderness, 3y, Harzs s having his political one now. | InOhlo it Is the young men for war and thy old men for Consuls, | Iltinols back taxes: Absentees from its Lep fslature, # PERSONAL. ThoLondon correspondent of the Montrea} Jlerald says her Toyal Uighness the Princess of ‘Wales has gone to Greece for the purpose of Inflg. enelng her brother, the Kingof the ellenes, 1¢ remain nenteal during the present complicatlons, Maj. Powell, the exploror of tho plnlns, i arecent lecture on the public Iands of the Uniteg Btates, sald that thero was not left unsold In tne wholo country, of land which & poor man conid form into & farm, enough to make one averszy county In Wisconsin, James Freeman Clarke, roferring to Harriet Martineau's bellef In annihilation, says wittily [y the lnst nnmbor of the North American Reciew; **f¥e cannot but think what a disappointment i must be to Marrict Martincan to nd hersclf allrg again in the other world," Judge Cooloy, of Michigan, ia to deliver o courso of lectures on constitutional law before the students of the Johas Hopkine University at Bait. more. ‘Theee lectures ghon placed In permanent form will ba a valuablo contributlon to literature, for there Is hardly a higher authcrity on the subject In the country. ‘Tho boautiful lines in Tennyson's * Maud,” beginning— A G I Ry, To find thio arms of my trie love’ Ttound mo onco again — srero published in a separate form by the poet roms quartor of o century beforo the appearanco of the tg_ll poem, W TW. Pattorson, formerly Unlted Stntes Benator from Now Hampshire, and prominently accusod In connection with tho Credit-Mobilier in. vestigation, has been re-clected to tha Lower lonse of the Now liampshiro Lenialatura, and Is & candl. date for Speaker. Truth censhod to earth, Itis well knowa, will rise agaln, and so, it secing, will the other thing, occaslonally. The Bouth African Exhibition nt Cnpe Town, which was opencd on the Gthof April by Bir Bartlo Frere, has been pronoanced a complete success, Tha United Btatea and England are scarcoly represented, but it is o plensuro to hear that Sir lartle enjoys tho fralts of his labors not. withstanding, ns he has dono thus far in allhls cfforts in bohalf of thoe people of Africa. Jrs. M. D, Potter aud her daughtor testl. fy In o publisticd card to the honorablo dealings of Mr. Starat 1alstead with them In tho scttfement of the affaira of tho Cincinnatl Commerclal, The Enquirer had assorted that Me, Halstead defrauded the widow and her daughter,~a charge which no. bady belleved, and which one of Mr. Halsead's character need hardly have takon the trouble to answer, The lato Rowland IL Macy, of New York, loft property eatimated to bs worth $500,000, His only son {s cut off with an allowanco of §1,000 pet annum, owing to bad habits and a passion for strongdelnk. The young man is 20 yenrs of age,* and has nover contribated anything to his own support, Tho father dirccts that, if ho contests the will, even tho $1,000 per annum bo withheld from him, The Worcestor Gazetls saya that the Bostos young man In soclety, who formerly consecrateds portlon of his Income for wedding-presents, Is now forcod to sot asido another portion for the Ol Bouth fund. A profane and robotlious spirit doth mightily prevall among the unregencrate youth of that godly tawn, and they*would fain sce (bo Ol Bouth turned into a dry-goods atore, or & billlarde ball, or devated to somo other useful purpose. Wong Ching Foo, ths Buddhist missionary now in New York, Ia surpeiscd to find Intelligent persons stlll holding the doctrine of heathen dsme| nation. Thero Is hope for him yot, however, fnasey much as the sama persons who hold this bollef now were a fow ycars years ago expounders of infant- damnation, which has sinco been abandoned, Har- Ing saved our own children, we fool aa if wocould extend some sympathy to our heathen friends, Editors who unwillingly subscribod to the opinlon that the Emma Mine Company was a fratd aud Park tho head swindlor of the organization scem to bo now not so cortaln aboutit. Ilels prossing that libel-sult ogalnst the New York Tridune hotly, sud has the vordict of twolve lon. eat men to back bim up. **It is poasible,” ree marka oo writer penitently, **that wo have all becn In orror In speaking of these transactions 80 frocly." Tho @raphic has beon printing pictares of ffteen leading *‘*humorists'* connocted with Ameriean newspapors. A nico look!ng sct of men thoy are, too,—and old enough to know betler. Ono singular fact in connectlon with thelr private historics le worth notlcing: many of them sre phooographars, snd It e supposed that their prace Uco in analyzing the sounds of words has alded them to becomo the accomplished punsters thad thiey now are, A New York writer, improving upon soms of his predecessors, says that Miss Kate Claxton wasinthe Itichmond Theatro when Jt hurned i 1811, Blhio may hase been there In spirit, sssbo doubtlcss was _at the burning of London and the firingof the Ephesian dome, somewhat corlicr; bat, as pallant defonders of woman's rights in re- spect to her age, wo deny that sha was bodlly press entat Itichmond in 1811, She confesscs onlyd thirty sumiacrs, 5 Bad news from the moon is published o1« cluslvely ina late number of the Springtcld Re- publican. 1t3s to the eftuct that the beautiful ord of evealug, —apparcatly s0 pure mnd chaste,—lh infact, fast, Irof. Newcomb says so. Thepals caused by this Intelligence Ia deepencd by the sus- plelon, uatursl undes the clrcumstances, that Prof. Newcomb could not havo known so much about 1be babits of the moon if he wera himself pesfectly upright In his dally walk snd conversation. 3r, John Brougham's new play entitled **Blander™ was successfully produced at the Chestout Strcet Theatre In Philadelphia Mondsy night, The suthor was called for and made s brlel aud plthy speech. He sald this was the tme he had ever b oppartunity to witness the faltial performance of one of his plays, sa be had always been too much engaged as ctor thereln. lle complimented the people of Philsdelphia o8 the possession of so fSne & theatre as the Chestnuly in which the best actors and best plays are pre- sentod—Shakepears vylog with Broogham for 1b¢ sscendency, Mr, Hormann Lindo, the German reader and reclter, has been giving o series of remarksdle entertainments, begloning Bunday night in Stand: ard Hall with a recitation of **Othello.” Tuesdsy night he recited *¢Macbeth* in the North-Side Turaer-Hall before a bLrilllsat and crowded, enee. Last night, in the ssma place, he glfered **Julius Ceasr.” Nr, Linde has committed all of Shakspeare's playe to memory, and his reclitations are entirely without the ald of book or prompler All tho minor characters are lncluded. e knows 8130, the German classics, snd can recita the works of Gocthe, Schiller, and Leasing, as well as thoss of Bhakapearo, Merely ns feats of memory bis portormances aze marvolous, and those who hsto Lieard them testi(y in the highest terma of pralse 10 tho discrimination, fidelity, and good tasto with which thoy are marked. As yet, all his recitations aro given in German, but his Eoglish 1s fask "l:; mivg sum g.'fl:fl:fim‘fi-'fium onlet, li9 ul intends to give Bhakspercan enlertalaments [ 18 veraaculer,